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Blood smells like spicy cloves and reminded me of opium.

I went through all the reviews, but none of them depict what Stage Blood smells to me, I get a dusty creamy spicy sweetness out of it. I suspect there's some clove and a dribble of dragon's blood and something else that renders the sweetness. There can't be cherry since cherry smells like almonds. Musk could be thrown in the mix as well, since the base has a musky quality to it. I'm happy i got this blend since it didn't turn out smelling what i expected it to smell in the first place. Win!

I get lavender and a blast of sharp flowers. Further drying, the lavender goes away and the freesia becomes more obvious and the honey is slowly peaking out. The tulip comes back and blends in with the freesia and turns into a wonderful spring bouquet. The honey note is very very light. The flowers are the key players of this blend.

This is such a poetic floral blend. I just can't figure out what type of white flowers were used in this blend, but i guess it's the lily. Combined with the white musk and pomegranate, it's such a lush and floating blend.The pom just rounds out the white flowers and the musk acts more as a base. Truly gorgeous!

This is so different from the previous Ides of March incarnations. The blend reads on my skin as a delicious mix of dark musk and amber, up to the point that it's reminiscent of Haunted, but not as sweet and sensual.

This reminds me of Volcanos in the Springtime. Take out the vanilla cream and add the blueberry musk and voila!

On my skin this a beautiful toasted patchouli blend. It reminds me a bit of Goblin, only that one had the black patchouli variety. I get no apples, no vanilla cream or bergamot, just lavender when it was freshly applied. Patchouli lovers, hurry and get a bottle of this ASAP!

It smells so wonderful when wet, but soon thereafter the apple fades and i'm left with the golden honey with a beeswax undertone, The beeswax note is the same as in This Wan White Humming Hive. Really intriguing, i just hope the apple shows up, after the blend settles.

Freshly applied, i smell indolic jasmine and white leather and it both smell like smoked bacon, but the leather dissipates and i get a dry smoked jasmine drydown. Imagine Phantasm stripped off its juiciness and add a bit of smoky white leather and you get this PI IV. A great standout blend !

Plush Viscera - Dragon’s blood resin, myrrh, and smushed strawberries with a little bit of lavender. Such a beautiful strawberry/ lavender combo

Freshly applied, the cherry/almond note shows up. And later on the blend morphs into something that smells very similar to Perversion, the GC oil. Who would have thought?

Woody green tea. I think agar-wood prolongs the scent's life span. Nothing complicated about it.

Cardamom and orange peel/mate combo hit me right in the nose. Quite a strong pair. It's an intense perfumey smell bordering on high-end potpuri. I think this beast will shine in rainy weather.

What a beautiful beginning: a smoky plum (???), could be the opoponax, and traces of myrrh and mandarin. This calms down as it dries and i smell some soapiness creeping in (lavender ?) and the mandarin note wears off completely soon afterwards. Semi-sweet Opoponax and something else clean is what stays on my skin. Win!

Such a beautiful and gentle apple scent. Apple pulp supported by apple blossom. A fragrance appropriate for any occasion.

Sniffing inside the bottle, the neroli hit me so hard, i needed to take a step back and regroup.I hope it's not a neroli-centric scent. Testing on skin, the neroli note goes away and i'm left with beautiful wafting cloud of sweetened mandarin. Very ethereal and cozy. After 10 minutes the neroli reappears (WHY???), but it's a sweetened amber neroli with hints of saffron. This reminds me of A Wonderful Light from the 2011 Yule release.

It's a rich floral dipped in honey musk. Reminds me of honey rice crispies. As time goes by, it settles into a neroli creamy honey musk. There's a note that stands out and doesn't sit well with me (not the honey), neroli or orange blossom maybe. If you're crazy about floral honey blends, get this!

I get a popcorn note out of this blend that sticks around during its entire life span. It's smells like snow soaked popcorn

Freshly applied, this smells like shampoo or shower gel. But as it dries down the apple fades and i get a mellow sour champagne note. Not for me.

I get no ice, i get no freshness, i get no ozone. What i get instead is a full-on chypre smell and reminds me on the spot of Roberto Cappuci for Homme 1967 frragrance, It's a bold masculine chypre fragrance. Totally not expecting a sea of ice smelling so manly.

Such a beautiful blend. I secretly hoped that the DB would shine, but it's nowhere to be found. Freshly it's a beautiful creamy strawberry lavender, but it gradually fades and i'm left with a strawberry cream and hint of plastic that comes and goes. I still enjoy it and boy, does this oil last! Good job, Beth!

Die Nacht. It's green musk with faint traces of lemon verbena.

This smells like the beautiful black musk from Haunted with an undertone of almond. The myrh gradually makes the black musk turn powdery and the almond disappears. In the end it's a delicate powdery dark musk.

This smells like a woody-herbal-chypre men's cologne from the 70s. The opoponax lends a waxy texture and together with the leather and musk smells like a mild candle black smoke with a dry mint undertone.

I have never smelled anything remotely quite like this before. I get the waxiness and sweetness of the beeswax, some incense, maybe resins and sedated ambergris. All in all, it's such a nice oriental blend. Not for everyday wearing.